Subject: Re: Speaker's Election
I also don't get how they keep voting over and over, for the same guy, expecting a different result. Is it just bullying until McCarthy is elected? That's not how elections are supposed to work. May as well be Saddam claiming he won an election with 90% of the vote...may as well not have the election at all.

They are in backrooms trying to cut deals. The holdouts want plum committee assignments and chairs, which presumably already have been promised to other Members of Congress. Each side is hoping the other will crack first. I think it is a good chance it won't be the MAGAs. They seem to delight in burning things to the ground.